Category: Romance
A large passenger vessel like the _Pandora_, that makes voyages of two and three months’ duration, without stopping on the way, is a hotbed of flirtation. When the first excitement of a ‘life on the ocean wave’ has toned down, and the novels are exhausted, and everybody knows...
A large passenger vessel like the _Pandora_, that makes voyages of two and three months’ duration, without stopping on the way, is a hotbed of flirtation. When the first excitem...
2. CHAPTER II.Aided by the steady trades, the _Pandora_ crept up to the line, and in little more than a month from her date of sailing she crossed that invisible goal, and fell in with a dead...
3. CHAPTER III.Iris was not unprepared for the meeting, although a moment before she had believed herself to be alone. She had talked the matter over with Maggie, and they had agreed that it w...
4. CHAPTER IV.No one on board the _Pandora_ was a greater favourite than Alice Leyton. She was pretty and lively and clever, and she was reported to be rich. On first starting, she had confid...
5. CHAPTER V.Three days after the events related in the last chapter, the trade winds, which had escorted the _Pandora_ so well on her passage, died away, and left the vessel in a dead calm,...
6. CHAPTER VI.Alice flew into the saloon, with her eyes brimful of tears, and the first person she encountered was Captain Lovell, who regarded her with looks of the utmost concern. He was a...
7. CHAPTER VII.The foreyard was pointed, and the gear of the mainsail hauled up, while Richard Sparkes, with the aid of five hands, swung the lifeboat into its davits. On the poop deck there w...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Many landsmen may wonder why vessels bound south go so far to the westward, instead of making a direct course through the tropics. It is because the trades are so much stronger...
9. CHAPTER IX.It was an intensely cold morning. As the sun raised his golden head of light above the horizon, huge icebergs could be seen far away to the southward, looking like monuments of...
10. CHAPTER X.About the same time a small wreath of blue smoke was observed issuing from one of the starboard ports of the _Pandora’s_ half-round, and the alarmed steward rushed upon the quar...
11. CHAPTER XI.A strong westerly wind coursed the Southern ocean, and gigantic green waves rolled on all sides of the _Pandora_, sometimes rushing up against her with pugilistic violence, and...
12. CHAPTER XII.‘I don’t think Mr Harland and I shall forget each other in a hurry,’ laughed Farrell sarcastically. ‘The memory of Mr Horace--I mean of the office and all that occurred there, w...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The accident that occurred to little Winifred Leyton, and the rough weather that succeeded it, had pretty well driven the idea of the proposed theatricals out of the ladies’ hea...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The large vessel, which turned out to be the _Carrickfergus_, of Glasgow, bound for Calcutta, did not appear to interest Alice Leyton and Captain Lovell. They gazed at her for a...
15. CHAPTER XV.It may be remembered that a certain letter written by Mr Vansittart to Godfrey Harland, and left by that gentleman in his coat pocket, was the means by which Iris discovered his...